hancock side on this and where borisjohnson matt hancock side on this and where boris johnson landsde on this and where borisjohnson lands the next couple of days will be very indicative about what the winter will look like for millions of people. in the metro also picking up on the idea of the confusion when it comes to local lockdowns but also looking at the headline of lockdowns are filling with a pick up on a survey that suggests that 25% of people south of the border in england have no confidence at all in borisjohnson‘s government and the handling of the pandemic. this is not the headline or the kind of news that boris johnson will want. no, buti or the kind of news that boris johnson will want. no, but i mean it's not surprising full sub it does feel like the government has not got a grip on this was a bit does feel like the response is all over the place and a bit shambolic. so there isa place and a bit shambolic. so there is a lack of trust and confidence which i think is a problem for the government. but the thing that is really stark about that piece is 19 out of 20 of th

matt hancock began with a tribute to leaders in lancashire.ould like to thank local leaders in lancashire who've been working with us so constructively, and i'm sure that their willingness to put politics aside and in the interest of the people we serve will save lives and protect livelihoods at this difficult time. he moved on to the latest developments with new tests for the virus. some of these tests can produce a result as quickly as in 15 minutes. we will make them available to local directors of public health as part of our strategy for local action. starting with areas in the very high alert level. these tests have shown real promise and we are both buying them now and ramping up our ability to produce them at scale right here in the uk. mr speaker, i will stop at nothing to support this endeavour to give us hope on the path back to normal life. his labour shadow welcomed the new tests, then turned to the areas with the most severe restrictions. we are now in a situation where the bishop of manchester, a bishop for goodness state, descr

this is matt hancock in parliament today... liverpool city region moved into the very high level yesterday, and i want to thank the local leadership for their public service and cross— party teamwork in the face of this virus. we've developed a substantial package of support for areas that enter this third tier, and this includes more support for local test and trace, more funding for local enforcement and the job support scheme, of course, alongside the offer of help from the armed services. well, how's that going with the people who might be put into tier 3? here's andy burnham, mayor of greater manchester. he's not happy... they are willing to sacrifice jobs and businesses here to try save them elsewhere. greater manchester, the liverpool city region, and lancashire are being set up as the canaries in the coal mine for and experimental, regional lockdown strategy as an attempt to prevent the expense of what is truly needed. strong old stuff, isn't it, laura and adam, and that real sense that this regional strategy from the g

i think it is matt hancock the health secretary. a really striking front page, not surprised. the papers kind of delicates colours to the manchester mass. a taking a step back from some of these political wrangling as well, appreciating that millions of people from friday are going to be under much stricter coronavirus restrictions and while all of this politics is about 65 million or 60 million is hugely important to those people. particularly those whose lives are going to be affected, there are 2.8 million lives were going to be incredibly changed because these restrictions and limits on socialising indoors and private gardens, as well as pubs and bars closing if they cannot have substantial meals. really quite stringent measures. manchester forcing the highest level of lockdown subtitle, number ten at war and compensation. we have been seen earlier that this exposes pre—existing things we have known about forever in the segment of the pandemic coming to the fore in a way that perhaps they did not imagine an april. regional inequ

matt hancock has been asked 30 times, the mail on sunday saying, and no clear answer appears to havetions come into force. a labourmp said new restrictions come into force. a labour mp said that parliament has a duty to respect the rules that they lay down for everybody else. not only to respect them, but to be seen to respect them and in this case, this story really flies in the face of that. or right, john, you mentioned earlier about the vaccine a story. that is in the sunday telegraph, hope for a vaccine in the new year, because we have seen stories about vaccines coming over andi stories about vaccines coming over and i remember quite a while ago, the front page of the times saying there will be a vaccine by september. what you make of this one? that one has passed, this is jonathan van tam, the plain speaking deputy chief medical officer, has become a bit of a rock star in his own right because he has appeared so much on television and in this case he was not speaking publicly, he was speaking i guess in a semi private capacity to mps and this was on monday. i do wonder why thi

if matt hancock saying, "i don't know what the rules are. " if matt hancock debut control, what wouldchange in of restrictions? -- gave you control. yeah. clearly, the ten pn curfew is creating an artificial point for people to come into town —— ten pn curfew. to get drunk and do other things. that was never the intention. what would you do? i would be more flexible around that. the thing we need to avoid are more house parties. we know the biggest spread of the virus at the moment is from house parties. better to have people out where you can see them doing things than it is to have things happening behind closed doors. more flexibility, what do you mean? give me the practical implications of what you are saying. i would have flexible opening hours that could be applied for the licensing trade. i would also ask for the powers to be able to ban alcohol sales before ten pn for the powers to be able to ban alcohol sales before ten pm so that people don'tjust come out of pubs and go to the nearest supermarket and go to the nearest supermarket and buy lots of booze and go to a house party

but first off, let's have a listen to matt hancock in the commons chamber today, when he was confirmingstrictions now covering liverpool and even more of the north—east of england. working with council leaders and the mayors, i am today extending these measures that have been in place in the north—east since the start of this week to the liverpool city region, warrington, hartlepool and middlesbrough. we will provide £7 million of funding to local authorities in these areas to support them with their vital work. the rules across the liverpool city region, warrington, hartlepool and middlesbrough will be as follows: we recommend against all social mixing between people in different households. we will bring in regulations, as we have in the north—east, to prevent in law social mixing between people in different households in all settings, except outdoor public spaces, like parks and outdoor hospitality. even explaining it takes quite a while, doesn't it? it does, and it's just a lot of people. a lot of people and a lot of real limits on people's lives and it was interesting there to hear

matt hancock has become increasingly frustrated by the process.oronavirus restrictions on hospitality. the company said the rules, which include mandatory table service, the 10pm curfew and limits on group sizes as "hugely disappointing". the group said pub workers currently on furlough support will be impacted. many are of course hoping for an efficent vaccine to be developed so we can all avoid getting the disease and the restrictive coronavirus measures imposed to control it. so while the world waits, china has already approved a vaccine for emergency or military use. and russia has approved not one but two vaccines for the third and final phase trial. but there‘s been scepticism internationally on the russian vaccines. 0ur correspondent in moscow is sarah rainsford. of course there have been questions and they were initially because russia was so slow to publish the science behind its trials. in the case of the first vaccine, it has now done that and published in the lancet medical magazine. the second vaccine, this epi—vac corona vaccine, the

what we tend to see when matt hancock and boris johnson what we tend to see when matt hancock and borisjohnsonpposition we have an importantjob to do that i think in holding them to do that i think in holding them to account. so rather than, matt hancock and boris johnson to account. so rather than, matt hancock and borisjohnson are particularly bad for this, rather than making great grand promises about how great the system is going to be, may be a bit of humility. we have been saying for months a number of constructive ways that it might be improved such as using nhs labs to turnaround tests more quickly, using public health officials to give them up to have local approaches. we might take some of them on board so we might have a better system as soon as we can do. a report out a couple of days ago suggesting almost half of local councils have launched or are setting up contact tracing systems to supplement the national system. that is something you welcome and applaud, is it? yeah, it is great. viewers won't necessarily know this but in local authorities we have these teams, so whether it i

matt hancock says it hasn't changed where he sees things.e changed any of the decisions made about any restrictions in different parts of england but i think the debate will continue. where exactly is this going? some services so cases are levelling off but as we have seen today, they have gone up a bit further from where they were last week. hugh pym, thank you. donald trump's chief of staff says he's hopeful the president will leave hospital later today after receiving treatment for coronavirus. meanwhile, the white house press secretary has become the latest person to test positive for the virus. the news came after mr trump made an impromptu drive—by appearence for his supporters outside the hospital near washington where he's being treated as our north america editorjon sopel reports. it is being dubbed the covid joyride. last night, the president, who is still infectious, decided he wa nt to who is still infectious, decided he want to waive to supporters outside the walter reed hospital. the six lane hwy was cleared, secret service gua

matt hancock, who spent more than an hour—and—a—half answering mps questions. the snp mp margaret ferrier, who spoke in the chamber last week after testing positive for coronavirus. the speaker had warned mps criticism of her behaviour would have been against the rules. now, an mp says an inquiry into what went wrong with an it system that led to hundreds of postmasters being accused of fraud is "half—baked", whilst another raised fears that it could be a "whitewash". on friday, it was announced that the post office wouldn't contest appeals against convictions in 44 cases, raising the likelihood of them being quashed. last week, the government launched an inquiry by retired high court judge sir wyn williams to gather evidence into the horizon system and see if lessons have been learnt. 0ne mp welcomed friday's ruling — up to a point. but it eventually belies the agony and torment that has gone on of these individuals and hundreds of other individuals who have lost their livelihoods, lost their good names and in some cases, lost their freedom. in other cases, pe

the health secretary matt hancock told parliament the problems still haven't been resolved and the incident secretaryjonathan ashworth said the missing results were "putting lives at risk". here's our health editor hugh pym. testing and tracing continues today, but there are yet more questions about whether the whole system in england is working properly, with thousands of cases not recorded, so contacts of those testing positive were not followed up. the health secretary had to come to the commons to explain what went wrong. this incident should never have happened, but the team have acted swiftly to minimise its impact and now it is critical that we work together to put this right and to make sure that it never happens again. labour highlighted the failure to follow up contacts. thousands of people, blissfully unaware they've been exposed to covid, potentially spreading this deadly virus at a time when hospital admissions are increasing and we're in the second wave. this isn'tjust a shambles, it's so much worse than that. here is what we were told at the time about the number of daily rep

hancock, and boris johnson like the cabinet, people like matt hancock, and borisjohnson himself, there to the medical scientists on this and believe that it looks like there has to be more lockdowns, regionally as it is at the moment, and will have to have this safety net and will have to have other people running short of the essentials. before we go, look at the guardian. this is an industry that feels particularly hard done by the hospitality industry, faiza. yes. absolutely. people won't go to restau ra nts a nd yes. absolutely. people won't go to restaurants and then there was the help out scheme off the back of that case is set arising. now we have the 10pm curfew. back to eat out to help out. it's been hard to manage. you can imagine getting food, cooking, you don't know what is going on from how many people will walk to your door. and as i said come it is already notoriously low and many people are on zero—hour contracts. this is part of the reason we seen a massive rise in youth unemployment compared to adult unemployment and some forecast now playing that at 70% by the end

it's interesting thatjeremy hunt, matt hancock's predisaster, was repeating what labour were saying todayr more localised system needs to be a far more localised syste m — — needs to be a far more localised system —— predisaster. is there any chance the government will shift on that one ——. chance the government will shift on that one --. i do think if you're looking at the target numbers they are trying to get to, they will have to expand it so part of whatjeremy hunt was saying was using lots of different data and i think that is where they will eventually have to get to. john, you said you are speaking to us from germany. how different is the atmosphere they are in terms of local lockdown ‘s, the adherence to social distancing, face and everything else? let's look at the metro first of all. i saw isaw in this isjust in a predictable longline. here in germany,... it's not so bad. but yes, it's getting worse. people are getting more worried. the nights are drawing in, getting colder. it's getting harder for people to mix outside. if i was going to get ill, i'd much rather getih going to

tracings are not reaching enough and fast enough, and obviously, matt hancock has had to answer a lotmissing out of the debacle with the spreadsheet failure to capture all the information it needed to. i think it really will focus on what sage has advised on how that matches up to what the government has implemented. three weeks ago, and date of the government hasjust weeks ago, and date of the government has just published this evening, sage was already urging the government to implement the measures we see now three weeks later. so, i think we do start to see hospitalizations rocket, death rocket, people will ask why didn‘t the government asked sooner when the scientists were urging them that was the time to do it? itjust shows what the science isn‘t clear—cut because different numbers are so different. let‘s go on to the ft. rich nations d raft let‘s go on to the ft. rich nations draft for $100 billion revolution in corporate tax. this is being put forward i think but quite dependent on probably who wins the us election. yes, actually, in the interview in the

there is a support package in place which matt hancock and others have articulated.pularity for one particular tool in our tool box of support for welfare support and for that to continue so i am saying is that absolutely, if that is the case, keeping national resolve to get it in this enduring emergency, it would be wise for us to arise and plan for christmas and reconsider whether or not we should reintroduce it. that would be a sensible thing to do to bring people together. but i think many conservative mps were very unhappy on that wednesday evening when the scale of support now in place was completely glossed over, painting the conservatives as they did not care about support for children in schools and welfare provision and that is completely, i think that is irresponsible by labour. or a failing of the conservatives to communicate in the way you would have wished. yes. absolutely. my understanding is you are urging your government to change its mind before we get to the christmas holidays? yes, i agree with the communication piece and we need to do better than

we will talk much more about matt hancock's observations just after 3pm.ver the age of 60 but really stressing that while that gives cause for concern, the cases are not confined to that age group and he then talked about younger people and the rise of long covid and is gradually understanding more about long covid. more on that after 3pm. we will take a few minutes to reflect on everything the chancellor announced a few hours ago. increased help for businesses, we know the extent to which hospitality in particular is suffering. let's talk to martin greenhow from mojo bars which can be found in several cities including leeds and nottingham. some where your business is right now. i guess you have some bars shut, some still operating. talk as to really impact first of all? hospitality as a whole doesn't want to stand here with a begging bowl all the time. where businesses have been built over yea rs , where businesses have been built over years, with sacrifice, we stand to lose everything. what we have seen to lose everything. what we have seen today are som

you've got the health secretary matt hancock, his primary motivation is to make sure hospitals and cope you've got the chancellor who is primarily concerned about keeping the economy going as much as possible because we did dive very deeply into a recession after the lockdown. but the about bounce really quickly, and i think what rishi sunak is concerned about is if we go back towards cutting back economic growth, that will create a much bigger hole for the

and those comments from matt hancock, interesting to see he felt the need to come out and comment over the weekend around where the uk stands in terms of preparedness in terms of the numbers themselves, the u.s. reported nearly 90,000 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to almost 8.7 million after the country saw a record rise in cases on friday as outbreaks continue to flare up across several states several aides to vice president -- close to vice president mike pence, including his chief of staff have tested positive for the virus but pence maintained his campaign plans over the weekend with just over a week until the november 3rd election kelly o'donnell has the details. >> reporter: the vice president's mask, tonight an outward sign of another covid hot spot at the white house. >> north carolina is trump company. >> reporter: at least five pence associates are covid positive, including his chief of staff, marc short said to have mild symptoms. >> i think he's doing well hopefully the prognosis will be good. >> reporter: political adviser mar mart

the health secretary matt hancock urged them to put party politics aside.t's all from the bbc news at six so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'mjohn watson. as the efl meet to discuss a financial bailout — calls grow for an independent regulator in football. we hear from adam peaty — on a different kind of exhaustion. adam peaty on fighting fatigue as he returns to international competition for the first time as a father. we hearfrom teenage french open champion iga swaitek on how life is non—stop when you are a grand slam winner. back i have not had time to unpack from the whole trip you like it is really crazy here in poland. also, coming up in the programme. who is your unsung sporting hero? snowboarder aimee fuller shares hers — and asks that we celebrate the volunteers who keep sport going through difficult times. hello and welcome. the 72 efl clubs met today to discuss a 50 million pound bailout which could secure the futures of clubs in leagues one and two. it comes a

the health secretary for england, matt hancock, hit back saying any delay would cost lives. just look at what's happening in england. the grey area is on medium alert which means a 10pm curfew and the rule of six. the areas in orange will be on high alert from midnight tomorrow. that includes london and a raft of areas stretching from barrow in furness to elmbridge in surrey. for more than 28 million people, that will mean no more household mixing indoors. at the moment, only the liverpool city region is on very high alert. this bans people from more than one household mixing in most settings. we'll be looking in more detail about the changes in a moment, but first, our political editor laura kuenssberg reports on a row that threatens the government's covid strategy. is it too late to stop the northwest doors closing? government wants bolton every part of greater manchester and a limited lockdown. pubs and bar shut, travel restrictions, no household mixing. the students dominic and connor say a college, everyone is already ignoring the rule. people are still going out, what'

the i reports on intervention as well, but the paper says the health secretary matt hancock has defendedhe position, assisting managers are trying to avoid a loss of life —— insisting ministers. the international version of the ft leads with a ruling by the world trade organisation to allow the eu to hit the us with almost four billion dollars in tariffs following a row over state aid. while the new york times leads with the story of the twins in myanmar whose children commanded the army of fighters. let's begin. welcome to you both. you are slightly out of frame, can you move slightly to the right? absolute perfect. henry, you're perfectly in position. shall we start? good evening, henry! do you wa nt to start? good evening, henry! do you want to kick us off, digby? britain needs national circuit breaker. came out at five o'clock this evening. deeply political. this is breaking ra nts, deeply political. this is breaking rants, purely for political advantage. he got problems in the redwall, he's got to win back the northern constituencies, he needs to ta ke northern constituencies, he ne

you've got the health secretary matt hancock, his primary motivation is to make sure hospitals and cope he wants to make sure the virus as low as possible. on the other hand, if you've got the chancellor who is primarily concerned about keeping the economy going as much as possible because we did dive very deeply into a recession after the lockdown. but the about bounce really quickly, and i think what rishi sunak is concerned about is if we go back towards cutting back economic growth, that will create a much bigger hole for the uk economy. much more people will be and many businesses will simply throw in the towel, and that will have big consequences. towel, and that will have big consequences. that battle going on every day within the government, it's very clear that the mail in the telegraph are going against boris johnson's strategy there, and i think over the next couple of days, you'll see more of ministers of mps. let's have a look at the telegraph because the really interesting article about herd immunity. we've been hearing so much about this idea of herd immunity, whether it'

not just labour mps, matt hancock having heard what andy burnham said when outside westminster insteadop playing party politics. well, maybe he did not know this for conservative mps ina group not know this for conservative mps in a group as well but it's not party politics, it's a broad consists of of opinion among splitter configures the northwest that this proposed idea for that region simply won't work and is not properly funded. that leads us on quite nothing to the daily telegraph which reached the image of the queen we will come onto that later. the main headline the premise are pushed towards a national lockdown. the following from what you are saying thenis following from what you are saying then is that the direction that you feel the prime minister is going to be heading towards? certainly under increasing pressure to do that. wales is doing that and so is northern ireland or similar measures anyway. i've been talking about this to friends and i'm reluctantly coming around to the opinion that that possibly is the answer. as i said or indicated tier two or northwest simply ha

an exclusive for the express with the health secretary matt hancock who says brexit will help save liveswing new drugs to be approved faster. "i'll be back soon". the i leads on the statement made earlier by president trump — who could be discharged from hospital tomorrow — after treatment for coronavirus. the times says criminals are avoiding jail or having sentences reduced due to harsher coronavirus measures in prisons.and sentences reduced due to harsher coronavirus measures in prisons. and "horror at the movies" — the mirror reports the news of cineworld's plans to close all its 127 cinemas until next year — with 5,500 jobs on the line. so, let's begin. we start with the times and a picture here of president trump are working while in hospital and has been given steroid treatment that is normally only used if you are in a very serious state and on a ventilator, cover—up fears over his health. i want but doesn't add up, tony. as usual with donald trump it is hard to tell what is and isn't the truth. i think that will most concerned the president is the polling contained within this s

and the mail on sunday has a story accusing the health secretary, matt hancock of making what's describeda crass joke about test and trace failings, in a commons bar. so let's begin... the sunday times, townhall‘s to take control of work on virus. a u—turn on testing looms before new lockdowns, benedicte, and many public health officials and local politicians in various parts of england have been asking for exactly this sort of extra authority. indeed. of course, this is the story as we await the exact restrictions and which city, liverpool, manchester, others are in a particular tier, one, two, manchester, others are in a particulartier, one, two, orthree. this is interesting because this is a real u—turn. now, the feeling and perception, certainly from the united front of the mayors that we heard from at lunchtime today, including andy burnham of greater manchester, was very much there is that sort of top down, these are the rules, you are going to obey them. and there is not enough consents, there is not enough consultation. so i think this is very much a u—turn by the government, inde

that was the health secretary matt hancock in the commons a little bit earlier.has made public hundreds of pages of a testimony given by the british socialite, ghislaine maxwell, four years ago when she was questioned about her dealings with the convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. the billionaire took his own life last year. ghislaine maxwell is currently awaiting trial accused of helping epstein recruit and groom underage girls, charges she denies. earlier my colleaguejane hill spoke to our correspondent nada tawfik — who has been reading the testimony. this was from a deposition that ghislaine maxwell gave in april 2016, which was part of a defamation suit that virginia giuffre had launched against her. virginia had said she was hired and recruited by maxwell to give epstein massages after she had worked at a resort in palm beach. ghislaine maxwell has denied that and took issue with numerous comments that virginia took in the press. this lawsuit really dealt with these defamation claims. there has been a years long fight to have this deposition released a

lots of questions to answer for matt hancock. how did technical glitch happen?ontacts of those 16,000 people who tested positive have actually been co nta cted ? tested positive have actually been contacted ? stay tuned tested positive have actually been contacted? stay tuned to bbc news for that. you're watching bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell hello. after a weekend of relentless rain, something drier to take us into the start of the new week. a little drier, it won't be completely dry, further showers on the way but they should at least be interspersed with dry intervals and hopefully a bit of brightness. this swirl of cloud is the remnant of storm alex, the same low and heavy rain, devastating rain in parts of france and northern italy through the weekend, many parts of southern britain saw a month's worth of rainfall in just a few days. rain to come for wales and northern ireland into the afternoon, solid cloud, the remnants of a weakening weather front, the centre of the low pulling into the north sea, showers slipping in

he has always been pretty clear that it's a style. —— matt hancock.ransition period ends the 31st of december this year. it is not going anywhere. therefore that is something that he will have to show he has got a grip of. thank you. one thing the eu in the uk agree on front of the transition period is finishing at the end of this year and that will be that. however the negotiations go. the leading russian opposition activist alexei navalny has given his first interview since being poisoned — and says he believes president putin was responsible for his poisoning. mr navalny was released from hospital in berlin last week — he was treated there after falling ill on a flight in siberia in russia. germany says he was poisoned with the nerve agent novichok he's now spoken to the german news magazine der spiegel. he told the magazine. he said only the heads of russia's three intelligence services can order the use of novichok, and they all work under mr putin. and he described his experience. well, here's the der spiegel journalist who spoke to mr navalny s

with some quite dramatic language, relief from matt hancock today in the chamber about the consequencesthis sort of herd immunity, just too great to even contemplate. starts with a number of deaths being too much to bear in saying this was not a choice, that some of the arguments advanced in recent weeks being the idea that either you could just get to a level of where there's enough immunity in the population that the virus fizzles out,, but matt hancock says there's some viruses and diseases that don't do that. the flu is an obvious example. he also said that his idea that you could just shield the elderly and that everyone else carry on as normal was not possible either because he said that once a gets into the general population it trickles into the older population as well. he was very vehemently against those. defending actions the government has taken so far which as we heard are less severe than the scientists had proposed. towards the end of last month. but he was defending those today. the government said that they were robust but targeted and proportionate, and he made that p

the announcement from the health secretary matt hancock means about a quarter of the uk is now under stricter measures to try to curb the spread of coronavirus. it comes as official figures show the government's test and trace strategy in england is still failing to reach nearly 30% of the contacts of people who've become infected, but there has been some hopeful news. a major study by scientists at imperial college london indicates the growth rate of infections could be slowing. their react study estimates the r number, the virus‘s reproduction rate, appears to have fallen to 1.1 since government measures such as the rule of six were introduced. our first report is from our health correspondent richard galpin. the infection rate here in liverpool has shot up. a 13—fold increase in a month. people partying are not following social distancing rules, part of the problem. there has been a surge of people moving into and around this city recently, including students, but now all that is about to change. the rules across the liverpool city region — warrington, hartlepool and middlesbrough

we will have the health secretary at matt hancock here at 7:30am.ward for his work on the free school meals campaign. the manchester united forward said he is "extremely humbled" to receive the pride of britain award — and said he will dedicate it to those who have helped their communities during the pandemic. new restrictions have come into force today in italy in an attempt to slow down the country's soaring infection rate. all restaurants and bars will finish table service at 6pm and gyms, pools and cinemas will close. the measures will be in place for a month. mark lowen reports from rome. waiting — not on tables, but on news of their future. worried staff at a prime roman restaurant in a crisis meeting over new measures. inside, they prepared the last suppers. from today they'll close at 6pm. 0nly takeaway after that. the family business was just starting to recover from the first wave. we are really, really worried about it, for sure. you know, it's a very difficult situation and september was the first month for us that we started to go in th

this afternoon the health secretary matt hancock warned of the growing number of people over the age are now getting the virus. liverpool has by far the highest numbers but there's been a sharp rise in greater manchester in the past week. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has been assessing the capacity of hospitals across the north west. in happier times, this would be a busy, bustling city centre, but manchester is quieter now, poised perhaps to enter the highest covid alert level, tier 3. the row over how and when that is to happen rumbles on, with ministers in london warning older people are now increasingly at risk from the virus. i'm very worried that the cases per 100,000 among the over—60s is a01 in the liverpool city region, 241 in lancashire. and in greater manchester, it has risen from... over the past week from 171 to 283. local health leaders acknowledge the seriousness of the situation, but say it's not out of control. we're not overwhelmed. i think i want people to realise it is a serious position that we're in. we have seen a steady rise in our admissions both i

speaking in the common the last hour matt hancock said the error had not altered the rate of infectionday night public health england identified that over the days 15,8111 test results were not included in the reported daily cases. this was due toa reported daily cases. this was due to a failure in the automated tra nsfer of to a failure in the automated transfer of files from the labs to bea transfer of files from the labs to be a cheese data systems. i want to reassure eve ryo ne be a cheese data systems. i want to reassure everyone that every single person who tested positive was told that result in the normal way in the normal time frame. they were told that they needed to self—isolate which is of course now required by law. however, these positive test results were not reported in the public data and were not transferred to the contact tracing system. i wa nt to to the contact tracing system. i want to thank colleagues who'd been working since late friday night through the weekend to resolve this problem. and i want to set out the steps that we take in. first, contact tracing of t

so more from matt hancock a little later this morning and we will keep you posted on bbc news. a littlewe will keep you posted on bbc newsm course, as ever, chris, thank you very much. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in burnley in lancashire is now the highest in england with roughly 327 cases per 100,000 people. dr sakthi karunanith is the director for public health in lancashire and joins me now. thank you forjoining us. that is a really worrying rate in burnley and if we look at the week to the end of september, it was 178 cases per 100,000 people, and now it is 327 per 100,000 people. what is going on? it is very worrying, what we are seeing in burnley, especially the lesson that we are learning from burnley is that if you remove restrictions early on, before the infection has come down sufficiently, it can have a severe rebound effect and that is what is happening. there's a number of factors, i think we have lost the public because we need simpler messaging, number one, we don't have a fully effective test and tray system, number two, but a fully effective test and tray

matt hancock will address parliament shortly. course, we will bring you that statement, on a day when 241 further covid—19 deaths have been recorded in the uk. with two weeks to go until the us election — we're looking at the worldwide implications. starting in afghanistan — where a spike in violence is threatening peace talks with the taliban. and this is the moment police caught up with the man who murdered the swedish journalist kim wall — he'd been trying to escape from prison in denmark. the full story from copenhagen. greater manchester will have top tier coronavirus restrictions imposed on it by the uk government from friday. talks between local authorities and downing street over the level of financial support that should be offered collapsed. here is the prime minister explaining why he imposing the restrictions. over the last ten days, we have tried to get an approach with local leaders in greater manchester, a joint approach, unfortunately, agreement wasn't reached, and i do regret this. as i said last week, it would h

the health secretary, matt hancock, will make a statement to mps later this morning.spondent, nick eardley, reports. how much longer will these pubs be open? there's real concern about the spread of coronavirus in manchester and today, there will be further talks on whether it should be in the highest tier of restrictions, closing pubs which don't serve meals and banning people mixing with other households in most places. more restrictions could be coming, too, on blackpool pleasure beach. local leaders in lancashire think they're also heading for the highest level of restrictions. but some, like the mayor of greater manchester, andy burnham, are worried. they say there isn't enough evidence for more restrictions and that the economic support on offer doesn't go far enough. the leader of bolton council agrees. if government is mindful not to listen to the local voices and take us into tier three, then we then have another battle, which is to ensure that we have in the north the same conditions as we had in the lockdown at the end of march. and i realise there isn't a

the health secretary, matt hancock, told mps in latejune that nhs staff could expect regular surveillanceet happened. well, we know from the first wave of the pandemic that around 20% of staff got the virus in many hospitals. and up to 11% of patients who died of coronavirus actually caught it in their own hospital. so, regular testing of staff is absolutely essential. the government has conceded that it is necessary to do it in the hot spots where the prevalence is rising but it's not happening there either. and that's why we urgently need to address this. let's speak to our political correspondent with mason in westminster. we have heard from borisjohnson, his westminster. we have heard from boris johnson, his medics westminster. we have heard from borisjohnson, his medics and scientific advisor as well. the message was mainly about reiterating the problem we face right now, this critical point. yeah, that is right, charlie, good morning to you. there isa charlie, good morning to you. there is a real sense yesterday from the prime minister and the scientist that yes, if you saw some of

central government through matt hancock has been working very productively and many of the council leaders mayors in recent days and weeks, including the mayor of london, where there is an issue with devolved government, it's notjust in the north, but at the moment we haven't seen the rest of whitehall behave in the same way. we need to see the efforts made by the health secretary and the chancellor to work in partnership with local areas being seen across whitehall. at the moment we have not seen that level of commitment from officials or from the rest of the cabinet and that needs to change. it is a group of labour mayors we have heard from today. the chancellor is a conservative but he is also an mp in richmond in north yorkshire. how much more inclined might he be to help the north of england because that is where his constituents are, too? i think you heard in the piece there from jake berry who is one of the leaders of the group of conservative mps who now are organising the northern research group. it is notjust labour politicians who make the case in the north of england or in norm

the health secretary matt hancock told parliament the problems still havent been resolved and the incidentth secretary jonathan ashworth said the missing results were "putting lives at risk". here's our health editor, hugh pym. testing and tracing continues today. but there are yet more questions about whether the whole system in england is working properly, with thousands of cases not recorded, so contacts of those testing positive were not followed up. the health secretary had to come to the commons to explain what went wrong. this incident should never have happened. but the team have acted swiftly to minimise its impact, and now it is critical that we work together to put this right and to make sure that it never happens again. labour highlighted the failure to follow up contacts. thousands of people, blissfully unaware they've been exposed to covid, potentially spreading this deadly virus at a time when hospital admissions are increasing and we're in the second wave. this isn'tjust a shambles. it's so much worse than that. here is what we were told at the time about the number of dail

coronavirus infections went unreported because of what they say was a technical glitch health minister matt hancock says it was critical to ensure the mistake doesn't happen again the 15841 virus cases from september the 25th to the 2nd of october or not added to official figures prime minister barak's johnson seemed quite delighted about the era the the incidents that we're seeing in the cases really sort of corresponds to pretty much where we thought. we were and to be frank i think that the slightly lower numbers that we'd seen. didn't really reflect where we thought that the disease was likely to go so i think it's these numbers are realistic. so let's take a closer look at this with paul hunter he's professor of medicine at the university of east anglia england welcome to t.w. professor is paris johnson right to be quite so relaxed about failing to count nearly 16000 coronavirus cases. i think there is a serious issue here and that is that if you are going to be running a test track and trace system that will actually stop transmission ongoing transmission in the community then you hav

hancock and andy burnham in manchester just spell out for us then what you think the consequences ofse of an epidemic, when you know the r value is 1.5 you've got doubling times now on average across the country of seven days, but it's shorter than that. the doubling time, the speed of the epidemic is probably undoubtedly quicker in some parts of the country at the moment. seven days is now average across the whole country. if you wait a week, you double the numbers. so if there are, let's say, 20,000 confirmed cases today, which is i think about the number, and of course that's underestimated the total number of cases. but let's say there are 20,000, seven days from now there'll be 40,000. seven days later, there'll be 80,000. so you're in that very, very fast upward swing of the epidemic. and a day's delay matters. a week's delay really matters. and a two—week delay, you've gone through a four times increase. we saw that in march, april, and we're seeing that, frankly, across much of europe. the red lights are flashing in every single country in europe now and britain is not except

the health secretary for england, matt hancock, said the disease was "spreading fast" and "highly localisedation is now under local lockdowns. our special correspondent ed thomas has this report from liverpool. the mood music has changed. new coronavirus laws are coming to merseyside. households will be banned from mixing inside pubs and restaurants. i lost my husband last year. i'm now faced with the possibility of losing my home and my business. is that close for you? it could get that close. anna runs an independent pub. she's invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in this business. say we get a group of four, five, six people in, we've now got to ask them to show proof of where they all live as well. do you understand cases are rising? people are worried. absolutely, and we all have to take a great deal of responsibility, but i think that if you look at the hospitality sector in general, we are not responsible for the rises in cases. and this is an industry worth billions of pounds to the liverpool city region. the leisure, creative and cultural sectors support 50,000 jobs here. we ar

the health secretary for england, matt hancock, said the disease was "spreading fast" and "highly localisedrday, and will apply to the liverpool city region, warrington, hartlepool and middlesbrough. it's the rate at which cases are rising that's causing concern. take knowsley — there are 262 cases per 100,000 people there.

and the mail on sunday has a story accusing the health secretary, matt hancock of making what's describedass joke about test and trace failings, in a commons bar. let's make, what are you doing, not quite sure. what are you doing?” was looking at some papers. that is research, it is allowed, it is good. let's start with the sunday telegraph, millions will be ordered not to leave local areas, joe and it will be part of the country which are most affected by high infection rates and they are already having a pretty rough time, some people? yes, all of tomorrow's papers are dominated by stories of the next development to come in terms of lockdown. boris johnson development to come in terms of lockdown. borisjohnson has said for some time he is not interested in a national lockdown, return to what we saw in march and april. he will do whatever he can to avoid that. so as the number of cases rises across the country, but particularly in some areas, it is not surprised we see an emphasis on st mary's having a local lockdown. the emphasis on a three tier system, some are calling it a traffic lig

in a letter to matt hancock, they wrote that the restrictions were not working.ear they don't support further economic lockdowns, but instead offered of plan including more localised decision making and more financial support. we are facing the worst of both worlds here. the infection rate is going up here. so we decided to come together and stress to government, we've got the expertise so keep please can they start working with us. several people got tested on our fuller. the university has seen more than a thousand cases. adam and his flatmates could have been isolating for ten days. we had a pretty poor six months. what do they expect? we we re six months. what do they expect? we were all going to get in the end. the council has been delivering letters to residents saying that the return of university students has had an expected impact on the our number here —— the r number. their voices here that say it's too easy to blame students when there are other things going on.” to blame students when there are other things going on. i feel like we have been duped. i

the health secretary for england, matt hancock, said the disease was "spreading fast" and "highly localised quarter of the uk population is now under local lockdowns. our special correspondent ed thomas has this report from liverpool. the mood music has changed. new coronavirus laws are coming to merseyside. households will be banned from mixing inside pubs and restaurants. i lost my husband last year. i'm now faced with the possibility of losing my home and my business. is that close for you? it could get that close. anna runs an independent pub. she's invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in this business. say we get a group of four, five, six people in, we've now got to ask them to show proof of where they all live as well. do you understand cases are rising? people are worried. absolutely, and we all have to take a great deal of responsibility, but i think that if you look at the hospitality sector in general, we are not responsible for the rises in cases. and this is an industry worth billions of pounds to the liverpool city region. the leisure, creative and cultural sectors support

matt hancock said the best approach was when local and national systems worked together.h first minister announced a ban on people from uk coronavirus hotspots travelling to wales. mark drakeford said the move was needed "to prevent the spread of infection within wales" and elsewhere in the uk. i've read the paper that accompanied the paper to the prime minister yesterday and that confirms that the data does not constitute definitive proof in favour of a travel ban. in fact, that paper goes one step further and suggests that it should be considered alongside a range of other factors before a conclusion is reached and it also shows the transmission rates in relation to travel have already peaked in august into september. so, do you believe this paper constitutes enough evidence when by its own words, it emplores you to consider it alongside other data to justify a travel ban? the first minister said the people of wales were "clamouring" for the action he was proposing. where people are anxious and fearful of the effects on their areas and people from very high transmission